We are talking about the supply...they have dumped out and made available
millions more doses in the past two weeks....the optimal time frame was two
weeks...not what they've said historically. We're looking at current action
here, not ancient history....
wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:32:50 GMT, "katysails"
wrote:

Get off it and go read the CDC reports for the last two weeks....vaccine
ahs
been made avaialbe...in the millions of doses and has been allocated for
those who trult NEED it....both of our facilities have been immunized, as
have all the toher geriatric facilities in this area...and the county has
been offering vaccine at the local clinics as long as you fit the
parameters
of NEED...problem is, many people think they NEED it when they do not....

You are a complete nitwit, although that is nothing new. There has been an
ongoing effort for many years by the CDC, among others, to get more people
to
get a flu shot because it is beneficial for almost everyone. This debacle
has
undermined the effort pretty badly. If you were a health care
professional,
rather than an airhead office schlump/receptionist in a nursing home, you
would
NEVER spout the nonsense that you are spouting. The more people who get a
flu
shot, the better it is for everybody, including those who don't get a flu
shot.

BB

No...injecting foreign substances into your body that you do not need is not
a good idea when it comes to viri. They mutate too fast in in ways that are
too complicated to keep up with new technology.
"Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message
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In article ,
katysails wrote:
Do that...you're still going to die sometime....

Whatever. The point is that innoculating people agaist the flu is a
very good idea. We normally lose 36K or so people every year to
it. Some people are at higher risk that others, but some flu strains
are deadly to even normally healthy people. We're lucky that this year
is a mild season. What if it had been a bad one, ala 1918, and Bush
had failed to follow up on the advice he was given to do something to
ensure the supply? Instead of a few extra deaths, we might have a few
tens of thousands of extra deaths. Bush did nothing.

--
Jonathan Ganz (j gan z @ $ail no w.c=o=m)
http://www.sailnow.com
"If there's no wind, row."

The residents medical needs are met by Medicare but their room and board is
not....and no, I'm not against vaccination when it makes sense. Influenza
is a dangerous disease..to some. To you. You certainly need a flu shot.
It is not like the vaccines made for other diseases...it has to be
re-configured a guess every year and is not a broad spectrum vaccine. The
reasons why there were flu epidemics in the past are mostly gone in this
country. We do not have wide-scale starvation (malnutrition is not
starvation...it means you are not eating correctly..not eating at all...),
we have adequate sanitation, and a better understanding of how viri are
caught. Handwashing, self quarantine when infected, and use of masks are
far better options to choose than the needle...for the healthy. And as far
as the government being involved in health care goes...I believe there
should be research and development and there should be a regulatory agency
but I do not believe the government should be the administrator of or the
provider of health care services except to assistance programs.
"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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Katie,

I hope you're not saying, " no more Polio, TB, scarlet fever, small
pox,etc shots" I like the Federal Gov to be involved in our health
care.

Does your Health Care Center take Medicare Payments?

Ole Thom

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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:40:40 GMT, "katysails"

wrote:

No...injecting foreign substances into your body that you do not
need is not
a good idea when it comes to viri.

The word viri does not exist in the english language. If youo had
gone to
medical school rather than telephone receptionist school, you would
know that.
You would also know that your opinions amount to ignorant
superstition.

BB

wrote

The word viri does not exist in the english language. If youo had
gone to
medical school rather than telephone receptionist school, you would
know that.


The word ''youo'' is not in the English (note the capitalization)
dictionary either.

SV

On 28 Oct 2004 16:00:03 -0700, (Jonathan
Ganz) wrote this crap:

Thanks for clarifying. So, in simpler language, what you're saying is
that you support the notion that women should be subject to the whim
of state legislators, similar to how blacks were treated by those very
same legislators. Basically, they shouldn't have the right to choose
under federal law.


About time you started making some sense, Jon-boy. Maybe someday
you'll finally become a man.





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"Horvath" wrote in message
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On 28 Oct 2004 16:00:03 -0700, (Jonathan
Ganz) wrote this crap:

Thanks for clarifying. So, in simpler language, what you're saying
is
that you support the notion that women should be subject to the
whim
of state legislators, similar to how blacks were treated by those
very
same legislators. Basically, they shouldn't have the right to
choose
under federal law.


About time you started making some sense, Jon-boy. Maybe someday
you'll finally become a man.

He's saving up for the operation.

On 29 Oct 2004 15:32:23 GMT, (Bobsprit) wrote this
crap:

cough on you, one runs the risk of being stabbed, shot, mugged, even deafened
by some idiot with a boom box the size of a Volkswagon.

NY is among safest cities on the world. I've never witnessed violence on the
subway, but I hear it can happen. It also happens in airports, streets and
homes.


Your home, not mine.





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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:25:39 GMT, "katysails"
wrote this crap:

The fact of the matter is, you have to die sometime. And of something. So
it might as well be flu or yb or something like that rather than failed
kidneys, malingering cancer, or any number of other unpleasant ways to
go....life is a cycle...you live and then you die...get over it....you too,
will die...nothing you can do about it....

Not me. In fact, I know plenty of people that haven't died.





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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:10:07 -0700, (Thom Stewart)
wrote this crap:

Katie,

I, have a very different Mind set, having Myasthania Gravis. We have
to take a drug called Mestinon. What I have to pay for a Hundred tablets
($100.00) can be purchased overseas for ($8.00


I feel for you. I take a certain medication that costs $85 for sixty
tablets. I'm supposed to take two a day, so that would be $85 each
month. The medication is made by Pfizer, (and it's not viagra or
anything like that.) In Canada, it's only slightly cheaper.

With my drug card, it only costs me $25.





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